Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-25
The FI2S? GUN.
The Calm and Dgnifed Senate of the
United States Passes Edmunds
Retaliation Bill,
BY Foja OF rs 10 1 the President Is
Authorized TO Close al Our
Ports TO Canada,
The First Drop OF Blood Shed on the Coast
of Cana.;a VIII CAN ;ho americans
10 sssr, says Hour.
NLIN CU%ssXESS,
THE SENATE.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-Tae credentials
OF NJ. Charles B .Farwel, elected tc i'll the
vacancy il the Senate caused by the death
Of john \. Logan, were presented and
placed on file.
Tae Credentials Of Mr.. Cushman X. D8-
Wis, senatCr-elecg from MINES Ia for the
fall term Of six years from March !, 1857,
were presented aud Placed on file.
The Senate bal concerning offices Of tae
third class, providing that they shall not
b. changed into pOstotiices Of the fourth
! class W2ere the gros receipts amount to
$500 year, or where the bond and re
celptS and commissions constituting the
post'nss;er's compensation amount to
$1,000, was taken from the calendar and
passed.
AT sos the Senate, on motion of
Senator Edmunds, proceeded to consid-
Grafton OF the Senate bill o authorize
the President CT the UUited States to pro-
tect and defend the rights of American
tiShing vessels, American fishermen,
American trading and other vessels in
certain cases.
/ Senator Ingalls, thought that these
| fishing difficulties must be ultimately
settled either by negotiations or by war
This measure Vas distinctly one OF
retaliation. 1t Was an eve for an eve,
tooth for I t0o,h, fish for a fish, i. suit
for insult, wrong for wrong. He thought
! it important before the Senate
was called upon 10 vote that
the committee on foreign relations
should advise the Senate whether this
measure was intended t. be pacific or hes
tile, whether Il was in feet an invitation
TO negotiate or practically b declaration
OF war. There was no use III Disgusting
the proposition. There was q feeling 0i
irritation Che real party in interest being
Great Britain and net Canada), which
was al any moment, if the present att
tutc was continued, llable to lead
to 81 discomfort which might
ripen into cxasperatiou and this
intu opau hostility. It was,
therefore, OF very great importance that
at the outset the Senate should under
stand whether the bill wGs intended as
pacific OF as . hostile measure. He
quoted some SENTENCES from the report OF
the committee On foreign relations, and
remarked that countries had been imam
dated with blood on less provoca, IONS
The conduct OF the Dominion, and OF
Great British according to this report
was sufficient to justify aud warrant 3
declaration of war GU the part of the
United States. 1t was q violation not
only OF treaty rights guaranteed
by repeated conventions), but il
showed the purposes on the part OF
the government Of Canada, and of Her
MeJesty's government to harass, annoy
and destroy American fishing interests,
simply for the purpose either OF private
gain or OF some public advantage. II ap-
peared to him that, in view Of these grave
allegations and the irritation and diScOE-
tent known to exist between the two
countries, the reporting Of measure
which authorized the President TO enter
simply g process of retaliation was hardly
consistent with the gravity of the situa-
tiOn. It WSS G dangerous course to
authorize the President TO continue in
the came line Of conduct aud policy, with
the inevitable result Of either GaaIiy
Ne 0tiatiug f-r The purpose CT set
tiog these questions, or el>e Of
GIG to war in defgrce Of our rights
under the treGty Of 1872 He tnorgdt ii
would b. better, more in aCcorda. c. with
the dignity of the subjec! and the NE. atty
which ought to prevail among nations as
among men, to declare as the conviction
of the Senate that the relations between
the two powers are such IS to require ne
gotiations; that there should be authority.
not to issue letters of marque and re
prisal, but to select q commission to con-
slider the subject and, if possible, reach
5 me basis of understanding between
Crest Britain, Canada and the United
States in regard to the fisheries.
Senator Frye said Senator Ingalls, seemed
to forget that Canada was playing the
same role now which she had PLAYED
twice before. She played it but for one
purpose and that was to secure negotia-
ions fof reciprocal treaties, and these
treaties had turned out 20 the
of the United States and
he advantage OF Canada. He believed
t his duty to group the outrages which
lad been committed by Canada within
he past six months end then he would
ct the Senator from Kansas I'm
,slls) say whether or not he
bought the United States ought
c resort st once to negotiations
Senator Frye proceeded to particular
re the many outrages to which American
ishing vessels had been subjected in
waters. Amo:g them was the
:ase of an American vessel which had
brought irto Canadian port seventeen
CANADIAN sailors and had
Deen refused the right to purchase bar
el Of -four to keep her crew from starva-
ion. He declared that the annals of his
DRY, even Of the Fiji Islands,
night be searched without finding
case 50 brutal ard SO inhuman.
lie also quoted the case of the Marion
ir!mes, an American schooner, whose
ag was hauled down by Captain QuIgley
+ the Canadian cutter Terror. All these
aSe', he said, hsd been brought to the
ttentlon CT the British government.
hat government knew the utter inhu-
lanity Of these cases and knew that the
utrsges had been committed in violation
t law, as wei as Of good neighborhood.
Senator Vest inquired Of Senator Frye
7hether in the case of the hauling down
1 the American flag the government of
iraat Britain Endorsed that sction of
aptain Quigley, and whether On the
ontr4rv tnat GOVERN mont haS NOT aN